John Carroll, M.D., FACC, FSCAI, director of interventional cardiology at the Cardiac and Vascular Center at the ...
Heart Valve Technology
This channel includes news and new device innovations about heart valve technologies, including the aortic valve, mitral valve, pulmonic valve, and tricuspid valve. This includes information on transcatheter valve technologies like transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR, or implantation TAVI), transcatheter mitral valve repair or replacement (TMVR), transcatheter and surgical valve repairs, and surgical replacement valves. Newer devices are now being used for transcatheter tricuspid valve repair replacement (TTVR).
August 22, 2019 — Edwards Lifesciences is recalling the Sapien 3 Ultra delivery system after receiving reports of burst ...
August 20, 2019 — Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) have been shown to help leaky mitral valves that create ...
![FDA Approves Sapien 3, CoreValve Evolut TAVR Valves for Low-risk Patients](/sites/default/files/styles/content_feed_large/public/field/image/TAVRSapien3CorevalveEvolutRinvivo.jpg?itok=sfYZXXPj)
August 16, 2019 — In one coordinated move, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) opened use of transcatheter ...
![Example of an aortic valve CT imaging workup for TAVR valve sizing and assessing access routes. This patient has an aneurysm in the aortic arch. Image from GE Healthcare.](/sites/default/files/styles/content_feed_large/public/field/image/TAVR_nation_coverage_Decision.jpg?itok=PCdOsQEF)
As we usher in a new era for treating patients with aortic stenosis, we have been reflecting on the evolution of the ...
Joao Cavalcante, M.D., FSCCT, director of structural heart CT and cardiac MRI, Minneapolis Heart Institute, discusses ...
July 19, 2019 — Medical device startup company Filterlex Medical recently completed a series A financing round, raising ...
July 17, 2019 — Abbott has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the most advanced MitraClip hea ...
July 9, 2019 — Neovasc Inc. announced that its Tiara transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) device and its ...
July 8, 2019 — Berkeley, Calif.-based digital health company Eko unveiled an investigational aortic stenosis (AS) detect ...
July 5, 2019 — FEops announced that FEops HEARTguide was the winning entry at CSI Frankfurt 2019 voted on by physician ...
July 3, 2019 — A study of a procedure developed at Henry Ford Health System shows inducing a heart attack in patients ...
Federico Asch, M.D., FASE, director of cardiac imaging research and director of the cardiovascular imaging lab, MedStar ...
![CMS Finalizes Updates to Coverage Policy for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement](/sites/default/files/styles/content_feed_large/public/field/image/TAVRCorevalveBeingDeployedUnderAngiofromLenox%20HillDAICWebinar.jpg?itok=bulqMX-H)
June 24, 2019 — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently finalized its decision to update the ...
June 20, 2019 – VEITHsymposium and the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) announced an alliance between Transcathe ...